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[color=0072bc][b]Name:[/b][/color] [color=7ea7d8]Safira Ferrera[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Nickname:[/b][/color] [color=7ea7d8]Chimera[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Age:[/b][/color] [color=7ea7d8]17[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]School Year:[/b][/color] [color=7ea7d8]First[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Gender:[/b][/color] [color=7ea7d8]Female[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Nationality:[/b][/color] [color=7ea7d8]Immigrated from Portugal[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Personality:[/b][/color] 
[color=7ea7d8]Safira could be compared to a wolf, silently stalking it’s prey for great distances and amounts of time, waiting for the perfect opportunity. She only speaks when spoken to, or when she absolutely must. Otherwise, she could melt into any crowd without a trace, which she has done on more than one occasion to escape. 

When one actually does meet her and talk her up however, she is calm, polite and certainly does not resemble an assassin when out of her working gear. Safira speaks in a quiet voice and is very patient, as such she is very hard to piss off. Before one should even think to piss her off however, they would be wise to be mindful of how fast she is with a blade. ;)[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Bio:[/b][/color] 
[color=7ea7d8]Safira was born into a rough life of poverty and her family was in and out of shelters, often living on the streets. Because of this, she learned how to defend herself very quickly, along with how to get around quietly and steal food from the local vendors so that her and her family could eat. Safira often went many nights without eating, both because she couldn’t find any, and she was conditioning herself to run off bare minimum nutrition so that she could feed the rest of her family more.

At the age of twelve, she was kidnapped with the intention of selling her off for ransom. However after realising no one would ever pay up for her life, they wanted to kill her. It wasn’t long before they realised she had potential after she knocked out one of the guards, and she was employed into a Portuguese gang, serving mostly as a lookout at first.

After realising she had potential as a fighter, they brought her to the higher-ups of the gang and she was trained by some of the best fighters in the country, both in armed and unarmed combat, with guns and blades. She became one the gang’s more valuable fighter and ended up earning them a decent amount of money. 

Because she was still under age and that she had never been caught, her criminal record was clean and she ended up immigrating to America with the rest of her family. There, she learned even more skills as breaking into shops in town was much more difficult than in the slums of Portugal. Safira was put into a public school for two years before a lookout from Riddle Academy contacted her family, offering free education for her special skill set. Now, she’s in her first year at the academy, training with the rest of the students.[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Weapon:[/b][/color] 
[color=7ea7d8][url=http://www.bladesandbows.co.uk/ekmps/shops/bladesbows/images/sky-hawk-throwing-knives-404-p.jpg]Twin throwing knives[/url], strapped on top of each other on her right wrist. Can be deployed one by one with a quick flick of her wrist. Secondary use as a standard knife for hand to hand combat.

Normally for use in dire situations with multiple opponents, she keeps a [url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a7/d5/74/a7d5744bcad4c94740bfeb7615ee7809.jpg]combat sword[/url] mounted in a sheath on her left hip. It is light and razor sharp, more for slicing than for stabbing.[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Equipment:[/b][/color]
[color=7ea7d8] - Military grade smoke and flash grenades, origin unknown (2x each)
 - [url=http://www.ravenswoodleather.com/images/products/secondary/1272-3.jpg]Leather arm bracers (bottom ones)[/url], each sporting a metal plate inside for blocking blades
 - [url=http://cdn.chiefsupply.com/media/catalog/product//3/7/37cl33bk.jpg]Light plate carrier[/url] with a plate rated to stop up to 5.56x45mm fired from a full length AR-15 (Front plate
   only, rear is fitted with a kevlar lining rated to stop 9mm)
 - A small pouch of fake, black dyed roses. Her calling card.[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Skills:[/b][/color]
[color=7ea7d8] - Trained in most mainstream martial arts, up to a black belt level, armed and unarmed.
 - Stealth training
 - Deadly accurate with throwing knives
 - Trained in the use of swords, some small arms training
 - Because of breathing exercises and extremely hardcore cardio workouts, her heart-rate drops very quickly
   after exerting herself, and she can hold her breath for a good two minutes.
 - Can speak both English and Portuguese fluently.[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Abilities:[/b][/color] [color=7ea7d8]N/A[/color]

[color=0072bc][b]Other:[/b][/color]
[color=7ea7d8]She has a mark burnt into the back of her neck, a symbol of the gang she had been in back in Portugal. She often covers it with her hair or by wearing a collared jacket, however it can be seen with enough effort on most days.[/color][/hider]